Dr. Heike Rahmann

heike.rahmann@rmit.edu.au

Dr Heike Rahmann’s research and teaching focus on innovative design techniques and contemporary urbanism that combine theory, technology and urban ecology, which she explores through critical writing and creative practice.

Through her work, she has established strong partnerships with industry, community and government bodies in Australia and Asia, especially in Japan, Korea, and Singapore. She currently collaborates with Dr Brent Greene and Dr Maud Cassaignau (RMIT Landscape Architecture), RMIT PlaceLab and Singapore-based landscape practice Salad Dressing to test strategies and potentials for alternative ecologies in the City of Melbourne.

Heike has published widely including three co-authored books: Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence (Jovis, 2014), Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2016) and The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture (Jovis, 2020). For her most recent work Landscape Architects as Changemakers (in collaboration with Jillian Walliss), she produced films and a bi-lateral exhibition that explores award-winning design practices in Australia and Japan. This research presents a deeper understanding of how landscape architects operate within their own conditions to achieve outcomes that contribute to environmental, economic, and cultural futures.